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Human Trafficking Conference

Conference Agenda

Conference Program

View draft for the Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Trafficking 2011 Conference Program.

Conference Format

The conference will begin Thursday evening, September 29, with a reception and opportunity for participants to network. Friday will begin with an opening speech by our keynote speaker, then break into a day's worth of three concurrent sessions, with two sets of sessions before lunch and two sets of sessions after lunch. With two presentations in each 80-minute session, presenters should plan on speaking for 25 minutes, and allowing 15 minutes for discussion. Lunch and dinner will be served and will provide networking opportunities.

Saturday will continue the concurrent sessions up through later afternoon, when there will be a wrap-up speech by our keynote speaker. Lunch will be provided. Saturday supper is on your own.

Conference Keynote Speaker

Kristiina Kangaspunta

Kristiina Kangaspunta

  • Keynote Speaker for 4th Annual Human Trafficking Conference
  • Kristiina Kangaspunta biography

Kristiina Kangaspunta has been involved with the international crime prevention and criminal justice work for more than 20 years. For the last 13 years, she has been working with the United Nations.

Kristiina is currently the Deputy Director of United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) leading the Research Programme of the Institute. UNICRI, located in Turin, Italy, is one of the United Nations research and training institutes, focusing on crime, criminal justice and security. She works with a variety of issues related to human trafficking, organized crime, corruption, terrorism and other rule of law issues.

Before UNICRI, Kristiina worked with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Vienna, Austria, as the Chief of the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit. She initiated the first United Nations Global Patterns Report on Trafficking in Persons and she led the technical cooperation work to support the implementation of the Palermo Protocol.

She moved to UNODC from the Ministry of Justice of Finland where she worked at the European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control, affiliated with the United Nations (HEUNI). Before HEUNI, she worked in a research team at the University of Helsinki as well as in other research entities dealing with youth, prisoners and other topics of social development.

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